Anthropic’s Claude reports widespread outage

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Anthropic's Claude services experienced a widespread outage on Monday morning, primarily affecting login and Claude.ai access.

Summary

Anthropic experienced significant service disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting issues accessing Claude services, specifically Claude.ai and the login/logout functions. The company confirmed the problems were related to Claude.ai and login paths, stating that the Claude API remained operational. While the cause was not immediately detailed, Anthropic indicated they had identified an issue and were working on a fix. This outage occurred shortly after Claude saw a surge in popularity, rising to the top of the App Store charts, potentially benefiting from recent attention surrounding Anthropic's negotiations with the Pentagon regarding safeguards against using its AI for mass domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons.

(Source:TechCrunch)